Babies Best Start
Published on December 1, 1998

This paper describes Babies Best Start, an innovative initiative of Health Canada”s Community Action Program for Children. Based in Scarborough, Babies Best Start trains and supports parents from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds to act as Home Visitors to parents and their children living in low-income neighbourhoods. The author describes how the program was designed to give infants the best possible start in life by promoting, through early intervention and education, the health and development of young children.
ISBN – 1-894159-29-2